Storage and shipping crate.



G. KLENK.

STORAGE AND SHIPPING CRATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 190B.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1903.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GOTTLIEB KLENK, OF DEFIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DEFIANCE PRESSEDSTEEL COMPANY, OF DEFIANCE, OHIO.

STORAGE AND SHIPPING CRATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

Application filed July 15, 1908. Serial No. 443,783.

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;strips 8 are four in number, one for each of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and use- -ful Improvements in Storage and Shipping Crates,of which the following is a specifica- 1 tion, reference being hadtherein to the acr com )anyiug drawing.

This invention relates to metal bottle crates and has for its object toprovide a simplified construction of the bottle cell partitions and thebottle-supporting bars which will at the same time furnish amplefrictional resistance to oppose the undesirable sliding of the crateupon the floor or other supporting surface.

Figure l is a perspective view'of the box as a whole. F ig.'2 is abottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view along a diagonal Fig. 4 isa longitudinal section along the line 44 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a crosssection along the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

The box is made of sections of sheet metal suitably secured together andproperly reinforced.

2-2 indicate the side walls tind 33 the end walls, each consisting of agenerally rectangular .section of sheet metal, the side and end sectionsbeing. crimped together to form the corner flanges 4. The top of the boxis preferably provided with a de re'ssed inturned reinforcing flange 5and t e end walls arecut to form the hand-holds 6 which are constructedand finished in any desirable The side and end walls at their loweredges are bent outwardly and then inwardly l to form the flange 7, andthe outer edges of the horizontal strips 8 and 9 are folded with themetal of this flange as shown in F ig.,3 of the drawings, whereby theflange is reinforced and the strips held securely in place around thebottom edges of the box. The side and end walls are given an additionalbend at 10 so as to engage the top of the bent back portion of thestrips 8 and 9. The

side or end of the box, and the strips 9 are two in number} one, foreach of the long sides of the box. The lower strips 8 are beaded attheir inner edges to form a downwardly projecting rectangular flange 11,within which is inclosed the wire 12. By this construction the flange 11is spaced evenly from the lower outer edges of the box and a rectangularstacking rest 12' surrounding this flange is rovided for. The upper stri59 I are likewise beaded at 1.4 at their inner e ges and throughperforations 13, spaced at equal intervals along this beading 14, ispassed the bottle-supportin wire 15 which in one continuous woe isfiireaded back and forth from one o the headings 14 to the other in themanner illustrated in the drawin s. This construction of the bottomedges 0 the box and the bottle-so porting bars is described, illustratedand c aimed in my application Serial Number 394,000.

The cell-forming partitions consist of two sets of sheet metal strips 16and 16 intersecting each other at right angles and formed with'the endflanges 16, by which they are riveted to the side and end walls of thebox and supported in proper position. I prefer to allow for theinter-section 'of these partition strips by vertically slotting for theupper half of its width at the point of intersection one of theintersecting strips, as at 16, and similarly slotting for the lower halfof its width the other intersecting stri as at 16. These partitionstrips are suita 1y reinforced at their upper and lower edges by wires16' and l6 around which the metal of the strips is beaded, the wire foreach one of the strips running in one direction passing the throughperforations 16" in the strips running in the other direction whennecessery.

The partition strips 16 which are disposed in a direction perpendicularto the bottle-. supporting bars 15 are extended downwardly to a pointsuch that the lower edge of the headings 17 are flush with and he in thesame horizontal plane with the lower edges of the flange 11. Thebottle-supporting bars 15 arsapassed through perforations 17 in thestrips 16. This downward extension of the longitudinal strips 16accomplishes a number of objects. It provides additional support for thebottle-carrying bars 15;it. furnishes an increased frictional contactwith the floor or conveyor and it protects the bottle carrying bars frominjury. The amount of material used in the box and the number ofnecessary operations carried on in its manufacture are also minimized.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a metal box, sheet metal, cell-forming strips, the lower edges ofsaid strips be ng flush with the floor engaging surfaces of the box.

2. In a rectangular metal box, sheet metal sides and ends, partitioningmeans extendin between two opposite walls of the box, and cell forminsheet metal strips extendin between the other two opposite walls, saistri s being beaded at their lower edges to lie m the same plane withthe floor engaging surfaces of the box.

3. In a rectangular metal box, the combination with side and end wallssuitably secured together, of article su porting bars arrangedhorizontally in the ower part of the box interior and cell-forming sheetmetal walls connecting o posite sides of the boxes, some of the cellorming walls being arran ed to support the article-supporting bars anbeaded at their lower edges to lie in the same plane with the floorengaging surfaces of the box.

4. In a m etal box, the combination with the side and end walls suitablysecured together, of a downwardly extending rectanlar flan e inset fromthe lower ed es of t e box, ce l-forming partition walls 0? sheet metal,and article-supporting bars carried by the side Walls of the box andsome of the said partition walls, the said last mentioned walls beingadapted at their lower edges to furnish floor en aging surfaces flushwith the said rectangifiar flan e.

In testimony whereof affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

GOTTLIEB KLENK.

Witnesses:

HEN RY NEWBEGIN, C. C. HOFFMAN.

